New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-29
READY TO TPY THEIR WINGS.
YACHTS TuGe1Ne AT THEIR ANCHORS.

YACHTS TUGGING AT THEIR ANCHORS.
MOST OF THE PLEASURE BOATS WILL BE OUT To-
MoRRow-RAcEs AND CRUISES TO COME.
The yachting season will open in earnest to-
morrow aud the day will be worthy forerunner
of the most active and interesting summer in the
history of the sport in America. II the weather If
at all propitous it is probable that every pleasure
craft that can be got into condition will be out for
spin. All the leading yacht clubs with head
quarters near New-York. except the New-York.
American and New Rochelle, have arranged for
races regattas or opening sails and the waters OF
the bay rivers and Sound will be alive with
rakish-ooking vessels of all types, rigs ana
sizes from the diminutive single-sailed cat
boat to the immense steam yacht Inc
Lower Bay will be the favorte resort for
the yachtsmen and there during the day will be
seen most of the vessels enrolled in the Atlantic
Seawanhaka-C orinthian, Brooklyn Cornthian and
! New-Jersey clubs.
1t was the original intention of the Seawanhaka
club to have merely an opening sail and an enter
talnment at the new club house in the evening" but
at the last meeting it was decided to enhance the
interest in the occasion by offering prizes OF S2o
for the winners IN each Of the seven classes. thus
virtually making race. The boats Will assemble
at Bay Ridge at 10 a, m aud sail over the regular
|
York Yacht Club, starting from red buoy No. Is of
! Owls Head and sailing south one-quarter west to
| the centre of the Narrows two and a half miles,
thence south by west eight and half
miles to- buoy No. 10 on South
west Spit. thence southeast one-half east
! three-quarters of mile to buoy S12, thence east
one-haf south, one aud threequarter miles to buoy
No off the point of the Hook, thence out to Sandy
| Hook Lghtship southeast by east. one-half east,
eight and quarter miles and return over the same
course finishing at black buoy No. 10. sixteen ana
quarter miles. The total distance is thirty-eight
statute miles. Among the yachts which are ex-
pected to take part in this contest are the schooners
Palmer, Rutherford Stuyvesant; Norseman. Ogden
Goelet Agnes j. N. Winsow Clio, f. N. Wins
low; Montank. John E. Brooks; Resolute c. A.
Postley, and Aroostook. Henry c. Sturgis; the
soops Priscilla. Commodore A. Cass Garfield: Gin
derela W. L. Isein; Shamrock, j. Rogers Max
well; Graeie Joseph p. Earle Mischief, Joseph X
Busk; Regina, Valkyr, Vixen and Mystery aud
the cutters Bedouin. Archibald Rogers; Medusa.
Vice Commodore Robert Center; Wcnonah. Garlota
and Isis.
The boats of the Atlantic Yacht Club will come
together off their club house at Fifty-ffth-st
South Brooklyn and will start off on their opening
sail about the same time as the Seawauhakas
Although no races have been arranged or are con-
templated it is likely that there will be several
lively brushes between uva boats in the fleet OF
this organization. The schooners Comet, Grayllng
Varuna, Vidette and Wivern and the sloops ATTAIN
tic, IIildegarde. Athlon, Vivid, Ariadne,
Nlrvana. Crocodile Penguin Stella and Una
are among the crafts which are expected
TO carry the red "a" at their mastheads during
the day. As their courses will be abont the same
IL would NOT be surprising If the Atlantic and PTS
ella should make a test of each others merits.
After assembling at their anchorage at Gravesend
Bay, the Brooklyn Yacht Club feet will sail out to
add their quota to the harbor-ful OF snow-white
sails In this squadron will be such well-known
boats rs the schooners Madeleine. speranza ana
Chiquita aud the sloops Domino, Concord, Gree,
Elephant Faustna, Kismet. Onward and Wa
condah
Yochts Of the English type and rig VIII
probably feel most at homo in company
with the Cornthian club which Will also
have its opening sail. Commodore Padelford mas
reauested the fleet to assemble of the cluD mouse
al Tompkinsyillc at 1890 a. IN. and expects thau
the cutters Delvyn, lleen, Maggie, Oriva. Mona,
Stranger and Shona and the yawl Cythera VIII
accompany the flagship Ulidia down the Bay.
supper will be served at the club house In the
evening.
Tho little boats Of the New-Jersey Yacht Club
will be on hand in force and if the water is not too
rough will go out to the lghtship with the Sea-
wanhaka club. Otherwise they will content them
selves with sailing their regular regatta
course from Bedlow's Island to and |
around Buoy No. in the Lower Bay and
re,urn. They will start from their anchorage off |
the clubhouse at Sixteenthst., Hoboken, at a. M.
Decoration Day has always been chosen by the |
Kuickerbocker Yacht Club since its organization |
for holding tho annual regattas, and the con-
tests incident thereto always attract consld- |
cradle attention. This year the prizes are
exceptionally valuable and the entries unusual
" large The boats will be divided into six classes,
os follows: Glass l, cabin sloops and cutters 81
feet long at the load water line aud over; class z.
cabin sloops and cutters under 81 feet; class 8,
lib and maInsal yachts % feet and over
class 5, cat-rgged yachts % feet and over;
class 6, cat-rigged yachts under 23 feet class z.
steam and naphtha launches. More than hall OF
the ninety Yachts on the clubs roster have been
nominated to compete. The boats Will be started
ot IO.45 a M from or the club house at Point Nor
ris and will sail over twenty-mile course TO ana
around Fort Schuyler and Gangway bnoys and
return The iron steamer Sirius will follow the
roccrs The best time ever made over this course
wos hours Al minutes and 81 seconds by W. l.
Onderdonk's thirty-one.feet open soop Lizzie X on
October o. 1854.
Tine members of the Larchmont Yacht Club VIII
have enough to excite their interest IN the match
race ten miles to windward and return between
the lib and ;nainsail boats Nahli aud Shrew, owned
respectively by W. f. Common and H. H. Ohltten-
dem and La Perlcholc owned by \. T.. Bucnanan;
The NahIi is a wonderfully fast little boat and
should win
Resides all these occurrences in New-York waters
there will be sweepsake races In Newark nay
nnder the direction OF the Newark Yacht Club and
a score or more of races in the East, chief among
which are he open sweepstakes of the Cape Ann
Yacht Club mt Gloucester, the trophy prize race OF
tbe G-oat Head Club club race of the Cape Cod
Club off Brewster, club race Of the Monatlquat
Club aud the open regatta of the South Boston